Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc4

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:50:52 +0200
> Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> 
>> Jesse Barnes wrote:
>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:03:00 +0200
>>> Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Linus Torvalds
>>>> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hmm. Odd release. Something like 40% of the patches are in DRM
>>>>> (mostly nouveau and radeon, both staging, so it's a bit less scary
>>>>> than it sounds. But there's a noticeable i915 component too).
>>>>> That's all pretty unusual, afaik.
>>>> 2.6.33-rc4 still suffers from an annoying screen flicker with i915
>>>> and KMS on my machine. I *think* it started with 2.6.33-rc1 but I
>>>> haven't had the time to dig deeper.
>>> Does this patch fix it?  If so I'll queue something like this up for
>>> -rc5.
>> Yes, it does. Thanks!
> 
> Great, thanks for testing.  I'll send Eric a patch to disable this
> feature more properly.

OK, I think I am seeing a different kind of flicker now. It doesn't 
happen anywhere as often as before (which is probably why I missed it 
last night). The flicker is more like a flash of some other window 
whereas the flicker before used to "shake" the screen.

Does this ring a bell?

			Pekka